Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYGaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
More Banksy Quotes
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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